Correction: The role of Sammy Davis Jr. in Sandy Hackett”s Rat Pack Show was played by singer/songwriter/dancer/actor Dezmond Meeks.

Imagine if the legendary performers from the golden era of Las Vegas could come back to life to perform one more show.

This is exactly the scenario that Sandy Hackett envisioned when he conceived “Sandy Hackett”s Rat Pack,” a show that revives the essence of the original 1960s Rat Pack clan that ruled the Vegas strip with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Joey Bishop.

A genuine Vegas show that runs weekly at the Las Vegas Hilton, the other days of the week the performance is currently on tour with 70 performances in 45 cities across the country.

Friday night, “Sandy Hackett”s Rat Pack” will arrive in Carmel to transform the Sunset Center into a 1960s Las Vegas club, complete with classic songs everyone should recognize — “My Way,” “Fly Me To the Moon,” “What Kind of Fool Am I?” — as well as some never-before-heard songs written by the late Motown and Rat Pack songwriter Ron Miller.

Hackett, son of the late, legendary comedian Buddy Hackett, will perform as Joey Bishop. Hackett”s wife, Lisa Dawn Miller, daughter of Motown songwriter Ron Miller, plays “Frank”s One Love” —and she leaves it up to the audience to guess who that love was. The couple are coproducers for the show.

Other featured performers include David DeCosta as Frank Sinatra, Doug Starks as Sammy Davis Jr. and Johnny Edwards as Dean Martin.The musical team is led by maestro Christopher Hardin and conductor/pianist Joey Singer.

Hackett first thought of doing a Rat Pack show when he got a call several years ago from one of his father”s close friends, Joey Bishop — whom he refers to as “Uncle Joey.”

“Joey called me to say that HBO was doing a movie about the Rat Pack,” said Hackett. “He said, ”I think you would be perfect to play me.” I called my agent, but the project had already been cast. When I watched the movie, (I realized) it wasn”t really about the Rat Pack (but) it set me on a path. I thought to myself that I would love to do this.”

So he began devising a musical show with a theatrical narrative based on the premise that the original Rat Pack comes back to life to get together for one last performance.

“The show begins with a voice of God —it”s a literary device,” said Hackett, who casts his father as God through an audio recording that he recorded when his father was still alive. “(The Rat Pack members) are alive in heaven and making such a ruckus that God says he”s gotta get these guys out of here and do one more show.”

“This is not a Rat Pack tribute show,” said Miller. “It”s a theatrical production with a strong narrative background. We”ve really stepped up the bar with narrative. We”re using my father”s original, never-been-discovered songs to tell a story.”

One of the original staff writers for Motown records, Ron Miller wrote well-known songs such as “For Once In My Life” by Stevie Wonder, as well as music for artists including The Temptations, Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye and Smokey Robinson — in addition to members of The Rat Pack.

After her father passed away, Miller found a trunk full of her father”s unpublished songs and knew that she wanted to use her vocal talents to get them out into world.

In the production, Frank sings Miller”s father”s song, “For Once In My Life,” and then he comments that though he”s had a lot of women, there was only one woman he ever loved.

At that point, Miller walks onto stage and sings “Wasn”t I A Good Time?,” a torch song that her father wrote about a love that couldn”t be.

“It”s the most amazing experience,” said Miller. “I miss my dad very much. But when I sing his songs, I feel like he”s still here. He was one of the most prolific songwriters of our times — and people don”t often connect him to the songs. So I want to tell his story. When I sing his songs, I see people crying in the audience. It”s such a moving experience to know that his words can touch people so deeply.”

Moving lyrics and classic tunes aside, Miller said that it”s really the narrative carried through the music that makes this show come to life for audience members.

Throughout the show, audience members get to travel backstage to find out who these iconic personalities really were — and what these men meant to each other.

“The audience gets to witness their relationship,” said Miller. “I don”t consider our actors impersonators because people think of that as a copy. These actors have really captured the essence.”